In the wake of the arson attack that killed 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabshe, his grandfather, Hussein Dawabshe, has written a personal account of the events for the Israeli daily paper Yedioth Ahronoth. The attack in Duma was apparently perpetrated by Jewish settlers, who left Hebrew graffiti reading “revenge” on the building. Israeli officials called the…
One of the victims of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade is still fighting for her life. The 16-year-old girl is in very critical condition at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, according to reports. She was stabbed in the chest and stomach. Yishai Schlissel, a haredi Orthodox man from Modiin Ilit…
Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel. One of the rockets fired late Saturday night landed on the Israeli side of the Gaza border fence and the other landed near the border in northern Gaza. No casualties were reported in the attack, which did not trigger any warning alarms. The attack comes…
Moshe Matsri, headlined in the local media as an “Israeli crime leader,” was sentenced to 32 years in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion. Nicknamed “Moshe the Religious,” Matsri, 49, was sentenced Friday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, after being convicted by a federal grand jury last October. During the…
A Palestinian youth died on Saturday at a West Bank hospital following a clash with Israeli troops near Ramallah, Palestinian hospital officials said. The confrontation was one of three in a matter of hours in which Palestinians died from Israeli-Palestinian violence on one of the most tense days in the occupied West Bank and the…
Gary Ackerman, a former Democratic congressman from New York, has come out against the Iran nuclear deal. Ackerman, who represented New York’s 7th District for 30 years from 1983 to 2013, joined the advisory board of Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran. The group is affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and has…
Priorities USA Action, a SuperPAC supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, reported $1 million contributions each from Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Haim Saban. Other donors to the group, an independent expenditure committee that can collect unlimited contributions from donors, included J.J. Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath, who each gave $500,000. Saban’s wife Cheryl, also…
A judge upheld the six-and-a-half-year prison sentence of Rabbi Barry Freundel, the Washington rabbi who secretly videotaped dozens of women undressing in the mikvah. The ruling Friday in a Washington D.C. federal court came in response to Freundel’s appeal of the sentence levied in May after he pleaded guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism. His…
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said several suspects approached the fence at two different points and did not heed calls by soldiers to stop. She said one group threw stones at the security fence…
The haredi Orthodox man charged with stabbing six participants in the Jerusalem Pride Parade has been deemed psychologically fit to stand trial. Yishai Schlissel, who is in police custody, was found fit to stand trial after a psychiatric evaluation Friday, a day after he allegedly stabbed six, seriously injuring two, i24news reported. Schlissel had been…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Friday the killing of a Palestinian child in the West Bank, saying the absence of a peace process and Israel’s illegal settlement policy had sparked violent extremism by Jews and Palestinians. Jewish settlers were suspected of torching a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing…
